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Timeline lands in New Zealand
December 8, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
The tides of change have arrived at the social network, as Facebook officially debuts its Timeline feature to users in New Zealand. “Starting today, we are making Timeline more widely available as we measure speed and other types of performance. We’ll begin by making it available to people in New Zealand and then roll it out more broadly in the near future,” product manager Samuel Lessin wrote on the Facebook blog . Following the announcement of the social network’s new look and feel at the f8 developer conference in September, Facebook rolled out the Timeline feature to a test group of developers and users – promising to eventually roll out gradually to its 800 million users worldwide. The timeline will reorganise the way information is presented and allow users to set custom photos on their profile pages, hide stories and share others widescreen, listen to music and share ‘apps’ with their friends. “Back in the early days of Facebook, your profile was pretty basic – just your name, a photo, where you went to school…
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Facebook’s photo fail
December 7, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
It appears that not even the man who created Facebook is immune to the social network’s increasingly infamous security issues. Instructions on how to circumvent Facebook’s privacy settings have been floating around cyberspace for a couple of weeks. However, the security glitch has now come to wider attention as images from Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg’s private photo albums were released to the world. Users discovered after reporting a public profile picture as containing inappropriate content they were offered the chance to report additional photographs by the same user. Facebook then presented them with a thumbnail gallery of private images that otherwise would have been invisible to the person making the complaint. Those pictures could easily be enlarged by making a simple change in the browser address bar and downloaded. By using this method, anonymous intruders were able to access private photos of Zuckerberg, his girlfriend Priscilla Chan and their puppy, Beast. Fourteen candid images were published on the image site Imgur under the headline: “It’s time to fix those security flaws Facebook.” Facebook has now issued a fix for the loophole. In a statement, the social network said: “Earlier today, we discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously.
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Android users download 10 billion apps
December 7, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
The app war between Apple and Android rages on as Android announced it has passed the ten billion download mark after accelerating past Apple in app download rates earlier this year . The Android platform became the world’s most popular smartphone after surpassing the Nokia Symbian earlier this year. “This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android market exceeded 10 billion app downloads – with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month,” director of the Android Developer Ecosystem Eric Chu wrote on the Google blog . The milestone is particularly impressive considering the accelerated growth in Google’s Android Market – while it took 22 months for Android to reach 1 billion downloads, it took just once month for the smartphone maker to jump from 9 to ten billion app downloads.
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